Saturday, November 1, 2014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE STATEMENT OF TAHMOORESSI FAMILY ON RELEASE OF SERGEANT ANDREW P. TAHMOORESSI (USMC) FROM MEXICAN CUSTODY

Tahmooressi family confirms release of Sgt . Andrew Tahmooressi after 214 days in Mexican Jail and asks for privacy

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA:

Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow
of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my
fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” – Psalm 91: 1-2

It is with
an overwhelming and humbling feeling of relief that we confirm that
Andrew was released today after spending 214 days in Mexican Jail. He is
back on American soil and will shortly resume treatment for both his
pre-existing Combat Related PTSD and the residual effects of months of
incarceration – which has taken a toll on him far worse than his two
tours in Afghanistan.

We will never be able to adequately express
our gratitude for the outpouring of support for Andrew and for us
during this ordeal. We are asking the media and the general public to
understand that Andrew needs privacy, time and space to decompress from
the trauma of the past several months.

Our family also needs privacy and
space as we attempt to support him in the resumption of his treatment
and his reentry into normal life. As Andrew regains his strength, he
will, in his own time and own way, appropriately acknowledge all those
whose efforts were so important to winning his release.

To all
those across the country who walked shoulder to shoulder with us as we
fought for Andrew, we thank you. It has reminded us that at a time of
much discord, Americans can come together for one of their heroes, and
we have never been more proud to be Americans. The support we received
for the We The People petition was overwhelming and deeply humbling.

The depth of our gratitude cannot be adequately expressed in words. So
many have relentlessly shared our anguish and our prayerful pleas to the
Almighty. Let the message today be that our pleas were answered. We do
want to recognize everyone who has played a role in securing his
release.

First, we are forever mindful of the power of prayer and we are
so humbled that our Heavenly Father answered our calls. This journey,
though an ordeal, has been blessed with the peace that surpasses all
understanding that only the Holy Spirit through our belief in Jesus
Christ can provide. Throughout this process we searched for purpose in
God’s will and perfect timing.

We even take comfort in new,
visible U-turn signage at the San Ysidro border crossing to provide
direction for motorists which we hope will save others the ordeal we
have endured.

We also want to acknowledge and thank those who
played an invaluable role in Andrew’s case, our family owes them a debt
of gratitude.

• The Honorable Presiding Judge in Andrew’s case
who was engaged, highly professional and also was kind enough to always
allow Jill to see Andrew at the Courthouse during each appearance.

After 214 days in a Mexican prison, Sgt. Andrew
Tahmooressi crossed the US – Mexican border Friday night, boarding a
private jet for Florida shortly after 9 p.m., after a strong diplomatic
push convinced a judge to release the former Marine on humanitarian
grounds.

His release comes after a lengthy trial and a Congressional hearing
in September highly critical of Obama Administration efforts to secure
his release and Mexico’s refusal to let him go. Tahmooressi said he
made an innocent mistake the evening he crossed into Tijuana with three
weapons in his truck on March 31.

While his defense rested its case several weeks ago, Tahmooressi’s
release came only after a strong diplomatic push from former Gov. Bill
Richardson of New Mexico and Reps. Ed Royce (R-CA) and Matt Salmon
(R-AZ).

While not mentioned in the initial splash, also part of the delegation to Mexico was … Montel Williams. (I’d been wondering what Montel was up to when he wasn’t shilling for payday loan companies.)

There needs to be some sort of meeting of the minds between the
United States and Mexico, because this entire episode is beyond
outrageous. There has yet to be a single item offered up by Mexican
authorities to indicate that the original incident was anything other
than what had been described by Tahmooressi. He took a wrong turn in his
truck and wound up at the border by accident. He wasn’t a drug mule. He
wasn’t a human smuggler. He wasn’t a gun runner, though he had a few of
his own personal – and legal – weapons with him in the truck. Holding
one of our Marines for this long should have serious diplomatic
repercussions for the Mexicans.

The other insulting aspect of how this was resolved was the acceptance of Mexico’s description of it as a humanitarian release.
The Marine suffers from PTSD and the judge ostensibly acquitted him
because he requires care which was unavailable in Mexico. While
Tahmooressi deserves and should receive all the treatment and support he
needs as one of our returning war veterans, this rationale carries with
it the implication that Mexico was correct to pursue the case all this
time, but they’re doing us a favor because they’re such nice, caring
people. And that’s a load of horse hockey.

Enrique Peña Nieto should be publicly apologizing to Tahmooressi, his
family and the entire nation.

If he doesn’t wish to do so, we need to
be taking a look at the more than three quarters of a billion dollars in aid
we send to Mexico each year. This country made a big show for months on
end for “apprehending” one of our Marines and “bringing him to justice”
when they can’t even keep tabs on the mayor of one of their own cities who arranges for an entire class of students to disappear courtesy of drug lords, possibly to turn up in a mass grave.

There are limits to how polite we need to be in the name of acting
like good neighbors. And Mexico is not being a good neighbor in this
case.

The Obama War on Pipelines

“This is not the same industry we had 15 years ago,”
Natural Gas Supply Association VP Jennifer Fordham said recently. That’s
an understatement. The oil, petrochemical and manufacturing industries
are also far different from those of 15 years ago.

Together, they’ve
created hundreds of thousands of new jobs and generated countless
billions of dollars in economic activity. No thanks to the Obama
Administration.

From EPA to Interior and even the Energy Department, the
Administration continues to display a strong animosity toward fossil
fuels. Its war on coal has hounded mines, power plants, jobs and
communities. Its opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline has thwarted the creation of tens of thousands of construction jobs. Its bans on leasing, drilling and hydraulic fracturing on federal onshore and offshore lands
have caused a 6% drop in oil production from those lands and a 28%
plunge in natural gas output – costing thousands of jobs and tens of
billions in bonus, rent, royalty and tax revenues to the U.S. Treasury.

Nevertheless, you’d think Obama regulators and policy makers would
support natural gas pipelines. Even the Sierra Club promoted this fuel
as a “clean alternative to coal” just a couple years ago. But no.

The fracking revolution on America’s state and private lands
has unleashed a gusher of mammoth proportions. In just six years,
2008-2014, it has generated a 58% increase in oil production (from 5
million to 8 million barrels per day) – and a 21% rise in natural gas
production. By the end of this year, U.S. crude oil production is projected to reach 9 million bpd. In the Marcellus Shale region, gas production is expected to reach 16 billion cubic feet a day, twice the volume of only two years ago.

However, this miraculous cornucopia is overwhelming the nation’s
existing delivery systems and, far from striving to eliminate the
bottleneck, the Obama Administration is creating new ones.

Not having the Keystone pipeline to transport Upper Midwest crude to
refineries has forced oil companies to move that oil by train. Rail
accidents have caused spills and deaths, but the regulatory focus has
been on stronger tanker cars, with insufficient attention paid to track
maintenance and safety – or pipelines.

Insufficient natural gas pipelines mean producers cannot deliver this
vital fuel to homes, hospitals, factories and electricity generating
plants, or to petrochemical plants that use it as a feed stock for
literally thousands of products. Pipeline companies are clamoring for
construction permits.

With supplies rising, prices for oil and natural gas are declining.
Global crude oil prices have fallen more than $20 a barrel and are
cheaper in the United States than in Europe. Natural gas prices in the
Marcellus area have been about half the U.S. benchmark price, which is
below $4 per thousand cubic feet (mcf), compared to prices as high as $9
or even $20 per mcf (or Btu) in Europe and Asia. As a result, despite a
clear need for gas, some drillers are re-examining their Marcellus
plans, and an estimated 1,750 Pennsylvania natural gas wells are not currently producing because pipeline connections are not available.

Here again the leading scholar of Islam tells us what it is or what it’s not. Nuts.
Secretary Kerry, are these Islamic groups also exploiting a
“legitimate and beautiful religion,” while they invoke the quran and
Islamic texts and teachings myriad times daily?: Hamas, Hezb’allah, Boko
Haram, the Muslim Brotherhood and these other designated Islamic
terrorist organizations:

Why wouldn’t they want to do this? After all, they love death.
Islamic supremacists frequently affirm how much they love death.

Austrian Muslim teenage girls who recently traveled to Syria for jihad announced: “Death is our goal.” Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said: “I’m even longing for death, you vagabond.” A Muslim child preacher recently taunted
those he has been taught to hate most: “Oh Zionists, we love death for
the sake of Allah, just as much as you love life for the sake of Satan.”
Jihad mass murderer Mohamed Merah said that he “loved death more than they loved life.”

The Spanish government is taking seriously discussions in
internet chat rooms on how terrorists could use biological weapons
including Ebola in its war against the West, a top official said in
parliament on Wednesday.

Spain’s state secretary for security, Francisco Martínez, has told
Congress that jihadists with connections to the extremist force Isis
have discussed on internet forums how they could use Ebola as a weapon
against the United States and the West in general.

Speaking on Wednesday in the congressional Interior Committee,
Martínez pointed to internet conversations of this kind as proof that
jihadists treat cyberspace as “an extension of the battlefield”.

The state secretary said that it was necessary to combat the online
challenge posed by extremists’ use of the internet, explaining that
terrorist groups have identified six objectives in their online
activities: “Threatening enemies through propaganda, preparing
operations, exchanging information, ideological training, recruiting new
members and acquiring finance”.

According to Spain’s RTVE public broadcasting corporation, the
interior ministry number two said there had been “many examples” of
threats to use the Ebola virus and other toxins in a new form of
terrorism offensive against the West, referring specifically to three
recent cases.

Most recently there was the “jihadist chat room” conversation
discovered in mid-September in which “the use of Ebola as a poisonous
weapon against the United States” was discussed in a forum Martínez
described as “linked to Isis”.

The security chief also mentioned a series of tweets from July in
which, he said, the terrorist organization Ansar al-Islam was shown to
be considering the use of “deadly chemical products from laboratories”.

Finally, Martínez told his audience of lawmakers that Isis’s
spokesman had issued an internet call for supporters to kill Westerners,
including civilians, by any means possible, including “poisonous
injections”….

Today, Saturday, November 1st from 11am to 1pm EST on RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS Craig and Diane will be focusing on all things 'TUESDAY' as this is our last chance to right the Obama grievous wrongs. CPR Worldwide Media's CEO and Craig and Diane boss, Michael Collins-Windsor, will be joining the show to fill everyone in on what CPR is doing to help get out the vote. Also, they will discuss the 'IMMEDIATELY' ordered release of Sgt. Andrew Tahmoorssi by the Mexican judge at 3pm yesterday.

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